Schleich Wild Life Realistic Detailed Hippopotamus Figurine - Wild Hippo Figurine Toy for Play and Education, Highly Durable and Detailed, for Boys and Girls, Gift for Kids Ages 3+

Hippo was a must have as we slowly build up a Shleich collection. They are the best play animals in my opinion, even if they're a little pricey. My one complaint is the paint definitely wears over time. However for how much they're played with it's bound to happen. Looks wise they're so detailed and realistic. They put others to shame when they're side by side.My son plays with these every single day. He grabs one for the car, takes them in the bath, plays with them in the sandbox, brings them to the kitchen table to eat. We love them. This guy in particular is really big and cute.My advice would be to add the ones you want to your saved for later on Amazon and get them when the price drops. The price can fluctuate several dollars per animal based on seemingly nothing so if you have a little patience it will pay off. For reference it is April 12 2021 this hippo cost $7.99.

Great toy. Has nice, realistic detail. Kids love it.

This is a gift for a hippo lover.Realistic and nicely made.Kind of cute but not cutesy.

Cute and sturdy. Good quality. Bought it for Christmas so my daughter could break put in song! It worked.

Just beautiful, I love it.

big and very sturdy, and cute.

Great detail. Excellent!Quick delivery

The figure is wonderfully detailed, accurate and realistic. As a lifelong lover of animals and someone who as a child collected and played, for hours, with animal figures, I'm thrilled that my three-year-old grandson is nuts about them too. He is specifically enthralled by "sea creatures," and I have almost run out of news ones to get for him, but since hippos spend most of their lives in water (albeit rivers and lakes and not seas) they manage to meet the criteria my grandson has created in his mind.As a kid, I would have died for this and the other superb Schleich animal figures and my grandson loves them too. Schleich offers a very wide variety of figures including a lot of rare and obscure species and you and the child in your life can build a very impressive menagerie if you so desire. The only possible drawback to these figures is their cost. I believe their value easily matches or exceeds their prices, but reproducing a 40 piece set of figures of lesser size and quality; that you can purchase for around $15 - $20, will cost you at least 10 times that much if you buy only Schleich figures. Their larger size is, to me, a very big plus but it can make matching them with smaller, cheaper figures a problem for older children who will be more cognizant of the difference. However, they are not so expensive that someone can't afford to collect them over an extended period of time - assuming the child in your life maintains, as I did, his or her fascination with animals for a period of years.As hippos go, this figure is one of the very best available. A word of mild caution: It is made of nearly indestructible plastic and is very rigid. It will not bend and can't be posed in different positions. My grandson doesn't seem to mind, but some kids like "squishier" animal figure...this one is not "squishy."